Atmospheric moisture pooled along and ahead of a slow moving cold front across McCurtain County in Southeast Oklahoma as well as Howard and Sevier Counties in Southwest Arkansas. Weak steering currents resulted in heavy rainfall rates with these storms training across the same general areas.
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Atmospheric moisture pooled along and ahead of a slow moving cold front across McCurtain County in Southeast Oklahoma as well as Howard and Sevier Counties in Southwest Arkansas. Weak steering currents resulted in heavy rainfall rates with these storms training across the same general areas. The result was reports of flash flooding across McCurtain County and Sevier County.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 11, 8:31 AM CST, 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 931 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2014 .UPDATE... HAVE UPDATED THE FORECAST TO MENTION HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE IN THE AREAS ALONG AND NEAR THE I-30 CORRIDOR. WPC HAS OUTLOOKED THE AREA FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING LIKELY...NEW FORECAST IS ALREADY OUT... && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 93 73 88 65 83 / 40 40 50 30 20 MLU 95 72 88 65 86 / 30 30 50 40 20 DEQ 84 68 77 60 77 / 60 50 70 20 10 TXK 90 71 81 63 80 / 60 50 60 30 10 ELD 91 70 86 63 81 / 50 40 60 30 20 TYR 91 73 86 64 82 / 40 50 50 20 20 GGG 94 73 88 64 82 / 40 40 50 30 20 LFK 95 74 89 69 83 / 20 30 50 40 30 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 35
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 549 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2014 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-111700- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION AR-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN- UNION LA-DE SOTO-RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE LA- NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE- FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG- HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA- SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- 549 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 30 THIS MORNING. THE STORMS WILL GRADUALLY WORK FURTHER SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG A COLD FRONT. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...BUT A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THERE WILL BE A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY INTO TUESDAY. HOWEVER...NO WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads were underwater and closed with swift water washing a truck off the road in Eagletown, Oklahoma.
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